Welcome to IJCAI-09

Hiroaki KitanoConference Chair

21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

July 11-17, 2009

The Interdisciplinary Reach of AI

Donald Michie(1923 – 2007)

Oliver Selfridge(1926 – 2008)

David Cooper(1931-2009)

In Memoriam

21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

July 11-17, 2009

The Interdisciplinary Reach of AI

Karen Haigh.

Program ChairIAAI-09

Local Arrangements.

Richard DoyleLocal Arrangements Chair

Southern California is home to the aerospace and entertainment industries

Pasadena is home to Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Thanks to the Local Arrangements Committee

Social Events

Opening Reception at the

Caltech Athenaeum

Conference Banquet at the California Science Center

Technical Tours

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

University of Southern California

Institute for Creative Technologies and Information Sciences Institute

Industry Day

Friday, July 17 Companies and institutions

“tell their AI story” Emphasis on

Aerospace and Entertainment Highlights include

Agents for SFX and immersive training QA systems in game playing Latest search engines

Entertainment

Ka-Band at the Opening Reception

Vision-based interactive Art Exhibit

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21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

July 11-17, 2009

The Interdisciplinary Reach of AI

Charles Elachi.

DirectorJPL

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Welcome

21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

July 11-17, 2009

The Interdisciplinary Reach of AI

Bill Bogaard.

MayorPasadena

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Welcome

21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

July 11-17, 2009

The Interdisciplinary Reach of AI

R. L. de Mantaras

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PresidentIJCAI

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IJCAI Awards

IJCAI-09 Research Excellence Award

Victor Lesser

Thursday 6:00 pm, East Pavilion

21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

July 11-17, 2009

The Interdisciplinary Reach of AI

R. L. de Mantaras

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PresidentIJCAI

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IJCAI Awards

IJCAI-09 Computers & Thought Award

Tuesday 5:30 PM, East Pavilion Tuesday 6:15 PM, East Pavilion

Carlos Guestrin Andrew Ng

21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

July 11-17, 2009

The Interdisciplinary Reach of AI

R. L. de Mantaras

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PresidentIJCAI

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IJCAI Awards

IJCAI-09 Distinguished Service Award

Luigia C. Aiello

21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

July 11-17, 2009

The Interdisciplinary Reach of AI

Adnan Darwiche.

Editor-in-ChiefJAIR

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IJCAI-JAIR Prize

Technical Program.

Craig BoutilierProgram Chair

The Interdisciplinary Reach of Artificial Intelligence

Papers, talks, workshops, tutorials: virtually all aspects of computer science assistive technologies, astronomy, astrophysics,

biology, economics, ecology and environment, education, engineering design, graphic arts, medicine, music, physics, political theory, security, sociology, and much more

Some Statistics

33 workshops, 19 tutorials Paper submissions:

1291 submissions from 55 countries 331 papers accepted (25.6% rate) 85 technical paper sessions

Five invited talks, one invited panel A variety of colocated events and

conferences

Technical Program at a Glance

Tuesday July 14

Wednesday July 15

Thursday July 16

Friday July 17

09:00-10:30 Hal Varian(start 9:15)

Luc Steels3 sessions

Cristina Conati3 sessions

Qiang Yang3 sessions

10:30-11:00 Break Break Break Break

11:00-12:30 7 sessions 7 sessions 7 sessions 7 sessions

12:30-14:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch

14:00-15:30

7 sessions

AI Futures Panel

3 sessionsTom Dietterich

3 sessions 7 sessions

15:30-16:00 Break Break Break Break

16:00-17:30 7 sessions(end 17:10)

7 sessions 7 sessions 7 sessions

Evening 17:30-1900 Carlos Guestrin

Andrew Ng

19:00-22:30 Conference

Banquet

18:00-19:00 Victor Lesser

Keynote Address

Hal R. VarianUniversity of California, Berkeley Google

Computer Mediated TransactionsTues, 9:15-10:30, East Pavilion

Invited Talks/Panel

Embodied Language Games with Autonomous Robots European Coordinating Committee for AI (ECCAI) Invited Speaker Luc Steels: Wed, 9:00-10:05, Ballroom D/E

Intelligent Tutoring Systems: New Challenges and Directions Cristina Conati: Thurs, 9:00-10:05, Ballroom D/E

Machine Learning in Ecosystem Informatics and Sustainability Thomas G. Dietterich: Thurs, 14:00-15:05, Ballroom D/E

From Low-level Sensors to High-level Intelligence: Activity Recognition Links the Knowledge Food Chain Qiang Yang: Fri, 9:00-10:05, Ballroom D/E

Panel: AAAI Study on Long-Term AI Futures Eric Horvitz, Bart Selman (moderators) Wed, 14:00-15:00, Ballroom D/E

Colocated and Special Events

21st Intl. Conf. on Innovative Applications of AI (IAAI-09) 25th Intl. Conf. on Logic Programming (ICLP-09) 3rd IEEE Conf. on Space Mission Challenges for Information

Technology (SMC-IT 2009) Symp. on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation

(SARA 2009) Symp. on Combinatorial Search 2009 CRA-W Career Mentoring Workshop AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium 2009 Computer Poker Competition 10th Annual Trading Agent Competition (TAC-09)

IJCAI-09 AI Video Competition IJCAI-09 Robotics Exhibition and Workshop IJCAI-09 Industry Day

IJCAI-09 Distinguished Papers

Learning Conditional Preference Networks with QueriesFrederic Koriche and Bruno ZanuttiniWeds, 11:00-12:30 session

Consequence-Driven Reasoning for Horn SHIQ OntologiesYevgeny KazakovThurs, 11:00-12:30 session

o Prize sponsored by AIJ Division of IJCAIo Eligible for fast track review in AIJ, JAIR

IJCAI-09 Proceedings/AIJ Access

Proceedings on CD Hard-copy available

2168 pages in 3 volumes

Proceedings available online http://www.ijcai.org/papers09/contents.php all past proceedings (1969-2009): www.ijcai.org

Free access to AI Journal since May 2008 sponsored by AIJ Division of IJCAI

Special Thanks

Tutorial Chair: Ronen Brafman Workshop Chair: Sylvie Thiebaux Program Committee

22 Area Chairs 91 Senior Program Committee members approx. 600 Program Committee members numerous auxiliary reviewers

Conference Committee and IJCAI Trustees Past program chairs Thomas Preuss, Mike Hamilton, Sara Burns Keri Harvey, Josette Mausisa, Colleen Boyce

Some Guidelines

Authors Arrive prior to your session Introduce yourself to the session chair Ensure your talk fits in 22.5 minutes Leave time for questions

Participants Be active, ask questions Take advantage of breaks to learn more

about the research of your fellow delegates

Enjoy IJCAI-09 and Pasadena!

21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

July 11-17, 2009

The Interdisciplinary Reach of AI